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Is Reporting Lockdown Breaches the Same as Snitching on Jews?   This poster appeared on lamp-posts in a Christchurch suburb in New Zealand recently. It uses Jim Halpert from The Office (played by John Krasinski) to ask the question, “If you will snitch on a person for violating quarantine, you would have snitched on Anne Frank and Harriet Tubman.” It refers to the police initiative to encourage people to dob in those breaking the strictest level of the lockdown, here called Alert Level 4 . As at 25 April there had been 55,000 reports about potential breaches from the public (we have now moved to Alert Level 3). That’s in a country of just under 5 million people. The writer continues: Same moral compass. Same choice of irrational fear over humanity. Irrational because many, many independent (not funded by [?]) experts are saying that Covid-19 has a lower mortality rate than influenza. There is a MUCH bigger picture here than Covid-19. Covid-19 is the Trojan horse t...